Mladinska knjiga Publishing House

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Mladinska knjiga Založba d.d.
Slovenska cesta 29, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 241 3000
Bojan Švigelj, Editor in Chief



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Mladinska knjiga Publishing House was established as early as 1945 and remains the largest publishing house in Slovenia.

Today the Mladinska knjiga Group has branches in 8 Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. It manages also Cankarjeva Publishing House and the network of about 55 Mladinska knjiga Bookshops round Slovenia, the largest of which (Konzorcij Bookstore) in Ljubljana.

Mladinska knjiga hosts the Frankfurt after Frankfurt Book Fair and Bologna after Bologna Children's Book Fair. It also bestows the Levstik Award for children's literature, and the Blue Bird Award for best manuscript of adult or young adult novel.

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Publishing programme

MK offers extensive and varied coverage of poetry, prose, and professional literature. However, its most significant publishing and research project is without doubt the Encyclopaedia of Slovenia, which was issued in 16 volumes.

Collections

The Kondor collection of prose works, referred to as a Slovenian Penguin Classics, was launched six decades ago, in 1956, and has reached around 350 books. Still popular is also the Nova slovenska knjiga collection that was launched in 1971. The collection Lirika was established in 1970, and today includes over 150 titles of world poetry translations.

See the timeline of Mladinska knjiga collections on the Wikipedia link below.

Magazines

Mladinska knjiga is also the main publisher of magazines for children (Cicido, Ciciban, Moj planet, PIL), and school students (PILplus), and publishes GEA magazine. In 2004 it started a partnership with Reader's Digest Inc. and began publishing the Slovene version of Reader's Digest magazine.

Public outreach

Since 1968, Mladinska knjiga runs the educational project Vesela šola ("Merry School") linked to the Pionirski list (later called PIL or PLUS) Magazine for pupils.

It also bestows the Levstik Award for children's literature, and the Blue Bird Award for best unpublished adult or young adult novel.

The Mladinska knjiga book club, called Svet knjige ("Book World") was established in 1974 and has more than 100,000 members.

Sunflower Gallery

Since 2008 Mladinska knjiga runs also the Sunflower Gallery that present mostly book illustration by the authors working with and for the Mladinska knjiga Publishing House and those who are publishing their work in the abovementioned children magazines.


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